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. . . Pro Hockey Fight! They ruined hockey when they took fights off the NHL ice. This one is from tonight’s game between the New York Islanders’ Rick DiPietro and the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Brent Johnson. But it’s too short. It ended before it really started. More, Please! My NHL is, “He Shoots, He Scores . . . He Fights!” Plus, what’s weird is that these guys are the goalies. They’re usually not the ones in fights, as goalies are different and usually the geeks on the team.

What is most unusual here is that BOTH the referees (orange arm bands) get involved to break up the goalies fight. The linesmen usually break up fights and the referees never touch the players. Goalies are automatically given a game misconduct and are ejected from the game if they leave the crease to fight.

What a true teammate as well. 16 seconds left and sitting on a shutout, he left the crease to stick up for his fellow player. He does not get credit for the shutout (Johnson’s last shutout was in 2006)but gains huge amounts of admiration from the fans and more importantly the locker room. That is hockey.

Great little scrap and it goes with the un-written code that only goalies go at each other.DiPietro’s shot on the other player deserved some retailiation for sure.And Debbie you must have LOVED the “Bruise Brother’s” era with Probert and Kocur!

I love hockey alot, as a Rangers fan, I remember back in the 1993-1994 playoff season, Mark Messier promised a win against the Devils in game 6 of that series, and wouldn’t you know, the Rangers won that game and the series and moved onto winning the Stanley Cup.

Very seldomly do you see goalkeepers fighting in hockey these days, if something like that happens, the goalies will be penalized 5-minutes for fighting, but one of their teammates will go into the penatly box and serve the 5-minutes for the goaltender.

You have to admire the one punch knock out. I have rented the hockey fights videos from local shops. The lesser leagues really get rowdy nowadays. Love that stuff. The Plymouth Whalers are excellent and economical to go to live. You won’t be disappointed buying a rink side ticket for those kids. 15 yrs old to 18 I believe. They’ve got a history of producing NHL talent. Google it up.

The punch of MMA heavy hitter, Rampage Jackson, was measured at 1800 PSI. On skates you would be lucky to get a third of that. Nobody is going to get hematoma from a fight. Maybe when you skate into an elbow. That could do it.